Newsletter 28 March 2006
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Event News! Staff Room Competition
This coming weekend the staff invites you to turn the tables on them. The challenge was set: participating staff members were given identical rooms and furniture. They were only allowed to use the items on the list, but were free to trade amongst themselves. Now you get to decide which rooms are the best.
Each day this weekend, four staff rooms will be open for your review. Visit each room and choose your favorite. Then go to the Poll on the VMK Home Page and vote for your favorite room. There will be one winning staff room for each day.
When:
Friday March 31 - 2:30 to 8:30pm, Pacific
Saturday April 1 - 8:30am to 7:30pm, Pacific
Sunday April 2 - 8:30am to 7:30pm, Pacific
Be sure to come back each day to see 4 new staff rooms!
Where:
Look for rooms owned by HOST_Babs, starting with Vote for, followed by the staff member's name. You will travel through a starting room, then on to the staff room. After the staff room you will go to an exit room where you will be awarded a small token of thanks for judging our contest.
You may complete the Quest as many times as you like, but will only receive a reward the first time you complete it each day.
Event Room Manners
When in an event room, please be considerate of others. Don't perform magic spells, trade, or do anything that would block other players.
"QA_s"
Starting this week you may notice some changes to familiar names in VMK. We have assigned a special prefix to all members of the Testing team; their names will now start with QA_. They will also be wearing blue Mickey ears for easy identification. Testing team members are constantly checking out items in the game to make sure things are working properly. Please don't interrupt their work with questions and Friend Requests.
VMK Staff Profiles
Each week we interview a different member of the VMK Staff. Pay attention - the answers may prove useful in VMK-hosted trivia games!
Staff name: VMK_Blue
Three favorite pieces of furniture, and why?
I love anything that stacks - stacking is great when creating a unique and fun room!
My favorites are the bubbling cauldrons (so colorful and eye catching!), ice blocks and crate - so much you can do with crates!
Favorite *type* of Guest Room?
The Animal Kingdom Safari room is a fun room for games!
Favorite Public Space?
Big Thunder Mountain
Favorite Mini-Game?(ie: Pirates, haunted Mansion .. not the hosted games) Haunted Mansion!
Best VMK moment?
My favorite VMK moment is when all of VMK staff created a River Ride for guests to go on - it was so much fun creating the ride rooms and playing in them after it was complete!
Favorite place to hang out in VMK?
I love hanging out in Ned's shop.
Best tip for someone new to VMK?
Explore, explore, explore!
What one safety tip would you like to share with our readers?
Never give out private information online, no exceptions. You never know who you are really talking to!
Best Guest Rooms
In honor of Villain's Month, CL_MsBehave shows off her sense of humor by bringing us The Brain Washing Ship. The owner sits in her chair and says things like "Villains are good, Villains are good" and "I heart all things bad" and she'll throw in some funny things like "Behave is the best room builder LOL". But you have to stand under the showers to get your brain washed!
What do you get when you combine an evil fortress with a kind heart? Check out Sleeping Beauty's Castle where AliceBlue shows off a castle within a castle built into a castle. AliceBlue is a great hostess and invites everyone to dance in her ballroom.
CL_GreenieMimi invites players to take a walk around a calm Beautiful Waterfall and feel refreshed. You can almost feel the water spray your face as you ride all the way up through the water ride, then back down. The walk up to the top is completely automated as well.
Best Game Rooms
BriarLori shares her version of the childhood game, this time called Duck Duck Boats!. Players go round and round on the river, surrounded by chairs. There is one less chair than there are players. When the owner says "boats", players run for a chair. Each round a chair is removed until there are two players and one chair. The race goes to the fastest. Winners get a prize from BriarLori who maintains a great sense of humor in her game.
Ever - Villains Evil Race Way! is a cute game where two players sit in skeleton chairs. When owner KrazyLuke says Villain, both Players race to the teleporter atop the crates. Speeding is ok, first one there gets a prize. This is a fast and fun game, very popular with the players.
Commodore Barbossa's Treasure is a fun game where Players race to the rug that is turned the wrong way. A prize goes to the winner, compliments of the room owner, CL_PoloGuy, who is friendly, helpful and polite to all.
In Purple Dragon Generator Battles, room owner Spyro has created an elimination game determined by who spins the highest number. Players advance forward to the first row to win. Prizes are whatever Spyro happens to have in his inventory. Creative room plan and cool game idea.